Antimonium Tartaricum

Head

Roaring, sharp shooting, tearing deep in the brain. Pressing headache, as if a band embraced the part. Throbbing, worse in the warmth, better in the cold. Head hot and sweaty; tinea; plica polonica. Lifting head from pillow, dizziness becomes so great is obliged to replace it. Painful drawing in right temple, extending down to upper jaw.

Eyes

Dim, swimming, often prominent and glaring: sunken, surrounded by dark circles. In pneumonia when the edges of the lids are covered with mucus; also, when the eyes are inflamed, staring, dull, half open, or one closed. Rheumatic ophthalmia or from gonorrhoea. Flickering before the eyes, coming and going frequently, can see only as through a thick veil.

Nose and smell.-- Sneezing, with fluent coryza, with loss of taste and smell. Painful tension across over the root of the nose, as if from a band. The nostrils are seen to dilate and contract, a sort of flapping, wing-like motion at every act of respiration, particularly in pneumonia or bronchial catarrh.

Face

The face is a perfect picture of anxiety and despair. Tearing pain in the whole side of, even the head and neck of that side; may be red and puffed, or pale and sunken; circumredness of the cheeks with paleness of. Cold, and distorted, pale, with bluish spots; bathed in a cold sweat; of livid color. Pustules on. Convulsive twitching in almost every muscle of.

Mouth

Tongue covered with a thick, white, pasty coat; open, parched, upper lip drawn up. Aphthae around the mouth. Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type. Tongue very red; in streaks, or dry down the middle; brown, dry. Bitter taste, nausea and vomiting.

Throat

Much mucus in the throat, with short breathing. Great dysphagia, deglutition almost impossible.

Stomach

After dinner, which he relishes, spells of nausea come and go. Craves apples, fruits, acids, cold drinks, and other cool and refreshing substances. Aversion to milk, and often to all kinds of nourishment. Loss of appetite, even disgust of food, sometimes nausea relieved by vomiting. Thirstlessness, or intense thirst, often satisfied with frequent sips of water, like Arsen . Great relief from eructations. Some food or tart wine often causes attack of asthma. Continuous anxious nausea with great effort to vomit, and sweat on the forehead. The smallest quantity of drink is vomited with eager desire for more; vomiting large quantities of mucus, sometimes tinged with blood, or clear blood; often followed by great prostration. Nausea with great faintness; with pressure in the stomach, followed by headache. Frequent eructations, like spoiled eggs. Violent pains, like cramps in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Great praecordial anxiety, with vomiting of mucus and bile. Sharp, cutting colic before or during stool. Violent pain in abdomen, sacral, coccygeal region, and loins; seems stuffed full of stones, but it does not feel hard; this is felt particularly after long sitting at work; cuttings in, when in the lower abdomen, it feels like a stone, all this causes trembling and bending together with retching, vomiting, and tendency to diarrhoea. Pain in groins, and cold creeps before the menses.

Stool And Anus

Tenesmus during and after stool, frequent burning at the anus. Before stool, rumbling in the abdomen, sharp, cutting colic, and frequently nausea, relief after stool. The stools may be small or profuse, mucous, very offensive, watery, bloody, light brownish-yellow, or green as grass. Diarrhoea in pneumonia, smallpox, and other eruptive diseases, especially if the eruption has been suppressed. Diarrhoea and vomiting.

Urine

Violent burning in the urethra during or after urinating, either or both. As the urging and burning in the urethra increase, the quantity of urine lessens and becomes bloody, accompanied by violent pain in the bladder. Urine brownish-red, turbid, and of a strong odor.

Sexual.-- Male : After checked gonorrhoea, pain in testes. Warts on the glans penis with pustules on the genitals and thighs. Female : Severe bearing down in the vagina. Sensation of a heavy weight at the coccyx. Violent itching of the pudenda. In pregnancy, gastric derangements as above recorded. Child at birth, pale, breathless, gasping, although the cord feebly pulsates. Often to be thought of in puerperal convulsions after the child is born.

Chest

Rapid, short, difficult and anxious respiration; seems as if he would suffocate, without sitting erect the whole night; sometimes the spell comes at 3 A.M., and has to sit up. Voice is very weak or quite inaudible, or short and interrupted. Larynx becomes painful to the touch, sawing respiration. Great rattling of mucus in the bronchia, particularly just below the larynx, like a little cupful about to run over, but very little is expectorated , all with a cough like croup. Very drowsy, great shortness of breath, bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Respiration very unequal, now shorter, now longer, worse lying down, lessened when carried about in an upright position; panting, as if the breathing were carried on by means of the abdominal muscles; gasping for breath at the beginning of every coughing spell. Noisy, whistling, purring, bellowing, or sawing; with great rattling of mucus as if the child would suffocate, always relieved by spitting or vomiting the mucus. In the difficulty of breathing, the face may be pale, dark red, blue lips, hot and sweaty head, muscular twitching. Cough, with or without rattling, often excited by eating; compels one to sit up, it seems loose and rattling, but no expectoration; with great pain in the chest or larynx, cries for help and grasps at the larynx; coughing and gasping alternately. Sometimes one expectorates with great ease and in large quantities. Violent pains from the chest to the shoulder. Sputa blood-streaked, rust-colored, adhering like glue to the vessel. Oedema of the lungs. Impending paralysis of lungs. Emphysema.

Heart and Pulse.-- Much palpitation of the heart and an uncomfortable warm and hot feeling proceeding therefrom. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling, full and hard; small, tight, hardly perceptible, or thread-like, sometimes a sort of trembling pulse, sometimes unequal.

Neck and Back.-- In croup, we often find the neck stretched out and the head bent back. Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region, the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold clammy sweat. Sensation as of a heavy weight at the end of the coccyx, dragging downwards.

Extremities

Upper : Much pain in the left arm from the axilla to the fingers. Pains in the wrists, knees and ankles. Trembling of the hands. Cold and moist hands and icy tips of the fingers. Lower : Dropsy of the left knee-joint. Tension in the hamstrings on walking. The feet go to sleep very quickly after sitting down. Jerking up of the limbs during sleep.

Skin

In variola, when the eruption does not appear, backache, headache, crushing weight on the chest and often diarrhoea, sometimes convulsions. Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark. A chief characteristic of this remedy on the skin is to produce pustular eruptions on any part, or over the entire surface of the body, sometimes as large as peas, and sometimes very painful.

Fever

Coldness of the skin, trembling and chilliness over the whole body, usually without thirst. Fever with intense heat of the skin and body, at times so hot as to drive one from bed. Copious perspiration follows the fever; cold clammy sweat breaks out, with great faintness.

Sleep

Unrefreshing by dreams. Great sleepiness, with nearly all affections. In rheumatic complaints there is usually sleeplessness. Often on falling to sleep, electric-like shocks and jerks set in.

Generalities

Great weakness and lassitude, feels best when sitting still doing nothing. Long-continued trembling of the head and hands after every exertion or motion. In some forms of asthma one bas to sit in a chair and lean his head on a table. In many cases great restlessness and tossing; throws his arms about all the time. In some forms of pneumonia so great is the prostration that the patient is constantly slipping down in bed. In some forms of summer complaint there is prostration and collapse. Collection of synovial water in joints.

Worse.-- Evenings; at night, with sleeplessness from warmth; after taking cold; every change of weather: fall and spring; in damp weather.

Better.-- From sitting erect; from eructation.

Remedies following:-- Bar. carb., Ipec., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur .

Antidotes

China, Ipec .